EU to Water Bottlers: H20 Won't Stop Dehydration

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I see their politicians are fiddling while Rome burns--just like ours. Pizza is a veggie.

The "bendy banana" and the "curved cucumber" regulations are propaganda claims known as Euromyths. They have been cooked up by Euroskeptics for political reasons.  Debatable at best, they have no place being cited as fact in a news article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No_2257/94 http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tm_objectid=16984112&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=bendy-banana-ban---myths-undermine-eu--name_page.html http://eurealist.co.uk/?page_id=1231 This "dehydration" story looks like a variant on the same theme.

Yeah that's true. Annoying but true. I have celiac disease & syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH for short - it's kind of like a form of diabetes insipidus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_insipidus that causes rapid loss of sodium from the blood if you drink water). Both conditions tend to dehydrate me. All that ends up happening with the low sodium thing in my bloodstream is I get perversely thirsty, perversely because if I give into the thirst & drink a lot of water because of the thirst it causes more sodium to flush out of me through my kidneys which in turn makes me thirsty and thinking of drinking water to quench my thirst. If I keep drinking water I end up losing more & more & more sodium until eventually my brain can swell, I can go into a coma & even die (that's what killed Andy Warhol I think, they didn't know he had SIADH - I could be in error though, it's been years since I read about how he died - but they gave him too much water from an IV drip during a surgery he underwent & oops, his brain swelled up & he died . . . it's also happened to SIADH sufferers who didn't know they had the condition & drank too much water from the thirst, they end up getting sleepy & a headache, lay down after taking some aspirin & never wake up again, oops) But thirst can be a sign of a salt deficiency, an electrolyte imbalance in the bloodstream that can be corrected by eating salty foods & drinking LESS water - not more ! Water can be considered a poison, you can die from intoxication from drinking too much of it even if you don't have SIADH : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication btw the lady who died in the Sacramento, California radio contest, I think they discovered she had SIADH - I could be wrong though, that was in 2007, her name was Jennifer Strange - poor thing : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication#Notable_cases